Lead Front-end Developer

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Lead Front-end Developer

FULL-TIME · AMSTERDAM

At MessageBird we provide a series of products and integrations for customers to use our platform. Whether it’s our extended online dashboard, our Developer Portal, our Help Center, or our beautifully crafted landing pages: we aim to use the latest front-end tech wherever possible, making it increasingly simple for our customers to reach anyone, anywhere in the world.

As a Lead Front-end Developer at MessageBird you’ll head up our team of driven and talented front-enders, working together to add to our set of exceptional communication products. You’ll work within and alongside our Product and Tech teams to take our platform to new heights of usability and functionality. You’ll create roadmaps using frameworks like React to make our dashboard more robust and engaging and use your experience to implement better solutions and architectural improvements as you see fit.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Oversee and review work of other frontenders

Set out roadmaps together with other leads for big projects

Guide less senior frontend team members when needed

Work on different aspects of our user dashboard and websites (including messagebird.com, our Developer Portal and our Help Center).

Maintain our front-end code using the latest best practises when it comes to asset management and scalability

Optimize our front-end code for performance

Stay up to date with the latest tools and libraries to benefit performance, development speed and user experience

Work on interfaces that thousands of people use every day, sending millions of messages

REQUIREMENTS

3+ years experience in a relevant role

Fluent (speaking and writing) in English

Expert knowledge of Javascript and CSS preprocessor languages, along with sound knowledge of the latest HTML and CSS practises

Highly experienced with Javascript frameworks - we’re using React

Good understanding of PHP in front-end (e.g. looping partials, ternary if statements)

You’re comfortable working with RESTful web services within web applications

Excellent debugging and investigative skills; you’re capable of finding the cause of an issue quickly

Firm understanding of how the browser works: you’re capable of explaining it to a 5 year old

Experience with both automation and package management tools like NPM, Yarn, Bower, Gulp, Webpack and Composer

Intimate knowledge of Git

You enjoy hacking things together to create a proof of concept, but you’re very critical of the code you push to production